Documents in our library describe Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) as “paper”.1 They give it as made 1929–1980.2 They put its asbestos content at 95%.2,3 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 600 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Asbestos content: “Asbestos Fiber”, p. 831
- Description: “Short fiber paper with high fiber content (95% minimum). Maximum of 5% binder content. Weighs from 4 pounds to 32 pounds/100 square feet. Thicknesses vary from .012 in. to .062 in. Widths of rolls range from 16 in. to 72 in.”, p. 941
- Description: “Asbestos fiber and binder.”, p. 831
- Temperature limit: “Atmos to 400”, p. 831
- Asbestos content: “Asbestos Paper”, p. 941
- Form: “Paper”, p. 831
- Form: “Asbestos Paper (Commercial Grade)”, p. 941
- Temperature limit: “0 to 600”, p. 941
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1929”, p. 1082
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1082
- Use: “used where an insulating material of minimum thickness is required”, p. 782
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1082
- Form: “Paper”, p. 1082
- Description: “A standard asbestos paper varying in weight from 6 to 32 lbs. per 100 sq. ft. and in thicknesses from .015 to .0625 inches. Asbestos paper is formed from asbestos fiber and a suitable binder”, p. 782
- Asbestos content: “95.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1082
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1980”, p. 1082
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 622
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 622
Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper (1981)
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “paper” (as of 1929), p. 694
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 225
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 225
- Made at: “Pittsburgh Plant (1926 to 1980s): Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper” (at Pittsburgh) (the plant: Pittsburg, California), p. 255
Kind of product
We list Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Asbestos Welding Paper · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt · Ceilinite · Cellamite · Centurian Base Felt · Coated Asbestos Base Felt · Cold Application Felt · Copperclad · D C Flexstone · Engineers Insulating Tape · Fibroid · Fire Felt · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet · Gold-Line · High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Carey Foil (Celotex) · Carocel (Philip Carey) · Cel-lux (Nicolet) · Cellotone (Nicolet) · Cleangard (H. K. Porter) · Cohrlastic (Connecticut Hard Rubber) · Commercial Grade (Ruberoid) · Commercial Paper (Nicolet) · Commercial Paper (Ruberoid) · Connectite (GAF) · Corlon, Aprina (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Mantina (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Norager (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Pirelle (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Serenada (Armstrong Cork) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
See also
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Johns-Manville on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), pp. 83, 94.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 108.
- Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper (July 27, 1981), p. 1.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 69. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.
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